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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1949)
Bathing Suits Reveal Plentu 9 By DIANE MECHAM I Battling suits for male eye ap peal. will be the center of attrac tion ton the coming season. No f longer will the man be unable to find his girl on the beach or in the water, since she will be vvear i ing shimmering metallic and lame, or perhaps a luminous iridescent bathing suit. The coming trend is toward the continental French style bathing suit. The American girls will be [wearing this in a modified form. It will be an adjustable two-way suit, [for swimming or sunbathing. A | terry cloth suit of this type was introduced by Cole of California last year. Bathing suits will feature the new nylon fabric. The advantage of nylon is two-fold, it wears longer and dries faster than the average suit. New colors are being added to the already vivid array of rain bow siiades. Forstman’s Woolen Company has set the new bril liant tone for bathing suits and play clothes. These brilliant shades, with depth and life, have been copied and named after the colors used by the early Romany gypsy tribe. Mabs bathing suits are display ing both the nylon material and new colors. The nylon taffeta suits are made in black, lawn green, aqua, royal blue, coral red, and maize. Other nylon materials are gabardine, sharkskin, satin, and spun nylon ratine. Outside the realm of classics are many new novelty suits. Strips of blue, white, yellow, pink, and sea green, half inch elastic, combined with fagoting in-between, produc es the Maos Parfait de Luxe. The Hourglass swim suit made with white or black nylon lace on the sides-is very'striking. The 1‘agliacci model is an all over diamond pattern that comes in the new tones. A lightening ef fect is produced in the Mabs Lightening suit in either black or white with gold metallic thread running through. Pali Paim is the all over block print made in the new nylon ratine. Crackerja^ck Check, Peppermint Stripe, Scotty Plaid, Cranberry, Viola, and Firecracker Cactus com plete the long list of new styles, and colors Mabs are presenting this year.-1 Aj though the one piece classic suit is still in vogue and will be more popular this year, two piece suits and especially the new strap less suits will create competition. Hose Marie Reid of California is showing these strapless bathing suits in many different tyles, espe cially with gold or silver metallic. The glittering metallic lame with a strapless wired bra, elas ticiized shirred back, and jersey lining is her sensation of the sea son. This suit comes in gold, sil ver, sapphire, cerise, and char treuse with a matching lame beach jacket. Most of the strapless suits, with the flexure bra, have an optional self strap. This is featured in a Qhe-piece princess style suit. Not only does Rose Marie Reid have unusual styles, but she also uses many* color combinations. The metallic satin lastex is shown in Chartreuse on ivory green, fuchsia on blue, electric blue on ice blue, gold on ivory green, and gold on orchid Drapes, ruffles, scallops, and shirring are prominent in her suits. Iridescent and luminous taffetas and laton satin in polka dots, plaids, strips, and print picjue. can be added to lier crea tions. Beach coats, an essential in ev ery swimmer or sunbathers ward x 1949 BATHING SUITS will display ruffles, scollops, pique prints, or stripes as shown in the picture. Suits with or without straps will also be in style. Mary Lou Weston, Coed of Week, Holds Outstanding Activity Record Phi Theta Mary Lou Weston is one of the most active juniors on the campus. At present she is the new president of Delta Zeta sorority, temporary chairman of the Incorporation Board, co-chairman of the all-campus sing for Junior Weekend, and a member of the student disciplinary committee, the YWCA cabinet, the AWS congress, and the University of Oregon promotion committee. Last term she was on the Homecoming promotion committee and was chairman of the Messiah committee. Her job as chairman of worship and religion and regional Christian faith and heritage in the YWCA cabinet takes up much of her time. Last year she was traditions chairman for Homecoming and Junior weekends, editor of the Student Christian association publication, cor respondent of the Oregon Federation of Collegiate Leaders, sophomore commission officer for the YWCA. Lou also worked on the Emerald, the Oregana, the central committee for the Sophomore Whiskerino, and on several committees under the executive council. During vacations Lou has entertained as a singer at the Oregon Caves, and has been on Meier and Frank’s college board. Last summer she went to Boston for her sorority convention. Lou’s talents are diversified. She sings, plays the piano, and as a hobby, sews and designs clothes for her sorority sisters. She also likes to cook. She recently changed her major from retail-merchandising to his tory. After her graduation she says she would like to do public relations work for an air line company. robe, are going to be full, with huge dolman bracelet length sleeves and mandarin collars. These coats either long or short are featured in terry cloth, shan tung, chambray, homespun, and canvas. Tina Lesser’s wrap-around mod el is a belted in shorty made in terry cloth with huge sleeves and “shortage” pockets. Another essential will be the ov ersized canvas beach bag. This bag with the straw bottom is lined in a contrasting color and tied with drawstrings. On the end of the draw strings are felt, zippered purses in the shape of a fish. They come in bright colors and are roomy enough for all the swimming and sunbath ing preparations. The bathing suits of 1949, though a far cry from grandmothers’ day, are quite unique in fabrics, color, and style. Libe Offers Opera The Metropolitan Opera company will broadcast Verdi’s “Aida” today from 11 until 2:30 p. m. The pro gram can be heard in the library browsing room. Luther House Study Melba Heide will be in charge of the Sunday morning Bible study at Luther house which will meet at 9:15. The group will be studying Romans 2 this Sunday. Sunday evening, Ray Peterson will lead a discussion on World Stu dents’ Christian federation and the United Students Christian council after supper at Luther house. George Boyd will be in charge of devotions. Esther Olson and Rose mary McNutt are student chair men. Officers will be elected during the evening and a yote will be tak en on the constitution. CANDY MADE IN EUGENE FOR YOUR EATING PLEASURE Sugar Plum Candy 63 E. Brdwy. 4128 Women's Page Porchlight Parade By Ed Cauduro Up Alder way the AOPis are en joying a double engagement . . . Grace Simpson told of her coming summer wedding with Jim Hansen, an ATO at Michigan . . . and Lila Chapman surprise the gals with her sparkling carbon from Sig Nu Bay Alt. The DGs came in for their share of Cupid’s prizes, too . . . Jerry Boylen is now happily fronting Delt Bill Marshall’s badge . . . and Janet Fields passed around candy feting her engagement to Sig Bill Larneer .... Another engagement in the news is the announcement by Kappa Mary Anne Haycox of her pending aisle trek with DU Jim Wallace . . . On Monday night Chi Psi Bill Johnson Valentine presented Gam ma Phi Elizabeth Weinzirl with his frat jewelry. Sig John Neeley is one lad who will agree two’s a couple and three’s a crowd . . . John is having his share of troubles trying to keep in both the Theta Alicia Peters and DG Bobby Jones league . . . think the race is neck and neck at this printing. uuucibittiw uamma rm nnrn Simpson is bubbling over Phi Psi Rich Hopper . . . from observations I believe the feeling is quite mutual. Paid Ad. Dept: If anyone finds a stray bone it should be returned to Phi Delt Jerry Switzers . . . Don't worry, fellas! ... all those frosh Tri Delts you see running around with the quad with engage ment rings doesn’t mean a thing . . . the gals picked the glass repli cas up at the local five and dime jut for kicks. . . . But one Tri Delt that is dead on the level is Jo Bjelland who an nounced her engagement to Sig Bob Hamill . . . the traditional Tri Delt Pansy party is going to be mighty crowded this year. . . Fiji Jerry Smith, alias King of Hearts, is the big attraction in Chi Chi O Glenna Hurst’s life and vice versa . . . another combo making points in the love game is Alpha Xi Barbara Detrick and Max Dar nielle. The Sigma Kappas found that turtles were out of season when they started their hunt for the rep tiles to be used in their WAA Car nival booth . . . only after canvas sing the campus and townfolk un der the auspices of the Eugene Tur tle Society did they locate the five stars of their race. Signs of Our Times: A late sur vey shows that Shuffle Board leads the list of collegiate pass times; with Bikini a close second, and pig ging lagging behind in third place. IT Courlillon Explains Fr en chRegistration By JoAnne Hewitt Registration at a French uni versity consists of three simple steps: presentation of one's bac calaureate degree from high school, a card denoting that the student has never been in jail, and his birth certificate. A sharp con trast, said Miss Janine CourtiJ lon, French instructor, to the in volved process necessary to com plete registration here. Despite the simple registration procedure, entrance to one of the. seventeen French universities is comparatively more difficult than to colleges in the United Staten. All are controlled by the minis try of education which decides the curriculum each year. Eiv trants are selected on the basis of tests given simultaneously each year in the major districts. Since there is room for only one-third of the high school graduates, the tests are necessarily severe. Miss Courtillon arrived in the United States, September, 194ft to accept a year’s teaching posi tion at the University of Okla homa in Norman. She graduated from the University of Rennes in Brittany, France. The initial surprise at this coun try has faded, but she still remem bers her expectations of the entire U. S. as being progressive, luxuri ous, and full of big buildings as in New York. 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